The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

Fayston.
S. j. DANA's horse fell dead while draw
ing wood last Friday. - The school in
district No. (Fred Lewis, teacher) closed
last Thursday. The town officers are
getting ready for March meeting. The au-
ditors will meet next Friday.
MarshfieId.
THAT was a model pair of "beef crit
ters " which III. II. Holister sold to w.
o. Standish, the Montpelier butcher,
last week. They were five years old and
weighed 1922 pounds, dressed Their live
weight was 3,44O pounds. = The lee
ture of Mr.. Tewksbury, which was to have
been given here Tuesday night, was
looked forward to with great interest, but
news came that he was on the ill-fated train
in the late terrible accident on the Cen
tral Vermont railroad. 60 The schools
closed last Friday. They have been thnly
attended the last four weeks on account of
whooping-cough. 60 Alvah Shepard is
jubilant over nice little girl. 60 Levi
Benton has hen that layed an egg measur-
ing eight by six and one-half inches. -
True Rand has gone to New Hampshire to
see his father, who is sick Burt Batchelder
takes his place as cook in the wood camp
and Charles White drives Burt's team
- The promenade and oyster supper
was well attended. - Rev. Mr.. Thatcher
of w orcester exchanged with Rev. G.. L.
ney is on the sick list. There are some
fears of pneumonia. - John Utton and
Dwight Matthews of Morrisvile were in
town last week and bought four horses-one
of G.. o. Davis and three of Web. Haskins
- George Gould of Cabot has received
a carload of horses from Wisconsin for sale
They passed through this place Sunday
morning. - Charles Adams has been
enlarging his store and finishing off room
for ready-made clothing
MiddIesex.
THE White Ribbon Army gave concert
at the church last Sunday evening. The
house was well filled and the concert
good. This society was organized Novem-
Der %, 1886, and it now has eighty-fve mem
bers. - Captain II. G.. Iull of Mont
| pelier will give lecture before the Young
| Peoples Literary Society in the church this
| "wednesday evening, beginning at seven
o'clock. Subject, Army "reminiscences
and Some Experiences in Rebel Prisons" !"
No admission fee will be charged -
Levi Swift has returned from his trip to
| Florida. - Almon A. Ladd, who has
been very sick for a number of weeks, is
now improving. - Miss Ruth Newhall,
teacher of the village school, has vacation
| this week on account of the sad death of her
brother-in-law, D. ID. Woodward of Water
bury, who was literally burned TO death at
the terrible disaster on the railroad Satur-
day morning last.
MOretown.
THE Ladies Aid Society meets with Mrs.
! Fletcher Wednesday afternoon. - The
! Catholics of this town are to hold fair,
commencing the 18th. - The drama,
Under the Laurels," was given in Water
bury Friday evening by people from this
place. - A campfire was held in the
Methodist church Saturday evening. Cap
tain II. C. Lull of Montpelier was the
principal speaker and addressed the large
audience on " "reminiscences of the War
and Prison Life at Andersonville." -
Ruth Hathaway and Richard Lyman were
united in marriage last week Their many
friends unite in wishing them health pros
perity and happiness. - Mr.. Eaton OF
Waitsfield has opened a tin-shop in the vii
lage. - E. E. Joslyn has leased the hotel
and will give the opening ball next week.
Gouldsville.
ZENAs GLAzIER died very suddenly o.
heart disease last Wednesday. The
Good Templars held supper at their lodge
meeting last Saturday evening. - Mrs
| Frank Glazier of Littleton, n. H., and Mrs
Charles Marden of Bridgeport, Ct, are stop.
ping with Mrs. Glazier for few days.
Waitsfield.
The educational meeting was success
| in every particular. 1t opened Thursday
evening with a lecture on Education and
Common Schools ~ by State Superintend.
ent Dartt, which was listened to by full
| house. The speaker showed, first, the intiu.
ence of well-regulated home, laying special
stress upon the power of the mother in
forming the future of a nation. Next in
rank was the power of the common school
While gratitied by the improvement in
school-houses, he thought that in many
towns the improvement in school-buildings
would not compare with the improvement
in barns. He could Judge of the morality
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churches and OF the intelligence of a COM
munity by the appearance of the school,
houses School-hOuses should be neat and
attractive from a standpoint of economy
Good discipline and punctuality he re-
garded important in forming character
The call to-day is for men of character
Good teachers cannot be secured for small
pay. On one occasion he was obliged tC
give negative reply to a prudential com
mittee who requested him to furnish a first
class teacher for $3.50 per week. Friday
morning the meeting opened with devo
tional exercises by Rev. l.. f. Pangborn
followed by class exercise in reading con
Quoted by Miss Carrie NJ. Green. Miss
Green's pupils showed good training il
reading prose and poetry in concert and
medley reading, and in paraphrasing it was
also evident from the manner in which they
told the story of the lesson that they read
intelligently. The subject of reading was
further discussed by DIR. G. j. Allen, Prin
cipal j. NJ. Hit, Mrs. Allen and others
The subject of arithmetic was then dis
cussed by Principal Hit, who showed five
mistakes which were often made in teach
ing arithmetic: Q) attempting to teach toe
much; (2) teachers do not teach thorough,
enough; (3) they teach too disconnectedly
(4) they do not teach nationally enough; %
they spend too much time. He was fol
flowed by DR.. Allen, DR.. Jones, b. ID. Bis
bee, Superintendent Dartt, Miss Il. Nj
Gleason, Miss Abbie Jones and others, who
brought out some good points, not only il
arithmetic but also on discipline. In the
afternoon class exercise in geography, by
Superintendent j. b. Thompson of Fays
ton, showed how protitably the subject o
geography might be handled. A class from
the village school showed what they hat
accomplished in temperance work, which
was highly creditable to teacher and pupils
Writing and composition were ably han
died by Principal Hit. The evening session
was well attended The audience listened
to an elucidaton of percentage by DR.. AL
len, who showed how thirty cases in per
centage could be easily and profitabl,
taught. Principal Hit gave an able lectur,
on language and reading, followed by
spirited discussion on the uses and abuse
OF the rod. Answers to the questions in th
question-boX terminated one of the most in
teresting meetings held in town for a Ion,
time. The people of Waitstield and vicinit,
will always be glad to hear that Superin
tendent Dartt is about to call this way
- 1t is hoped that none of our people
will fail to attend the chicken-pie festiva
to be given by the ladies of the Congrega
tional church tomorrow Thursday even
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